Engineering Manager

Filetwigbay; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 114,000 - 173,000; Part time

Job summary

StartupForge in Scottsdale is seeking a part-time Engineering Manager with 6+ years of experience to scale systems handling AZ-wide traffic. The role offers a salary range of $114,000 to $173,000 per year and opportunities for meaningful growth.

Responsibilities include documenting decisions, driving design reviews, and automating pipelines while reducing cloud costs. A strong emphasis on hands-on leadership and cross-functional collaboration is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with Tailwind CSS and Next.js on projects.
• Ability to thrive in a deeply invested, part-time team.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
• Comfort owning problems and delivering under deadlines.
• Willingness to own changing performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the org.
• Translate outages into fixes to simplify future launches.
• Sketch networking sequence diagrams to clarify tech flow.
• Trim cloud costs by right-sizing Linux infrastructure in Scottsdale, AZ.
• Lead technical design reviews for engineering initiatives.
• Bridge PHP and Terraform for platform integration.
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Turn vague tickets into crisp Git acceptance criteria.

Skills

Self-directed

Deadline-driven

Relationship Building

Time management

Tools

Tailwind CSS

Next.js

Job description

Join our engineering team in Scottsdale and help us scale systems that handle traffic from across AZ and beyond. For a quality-focused professional with 6+ years behind them, this part-time Engineering Manager job delivers $114,000 - $173,000 and meaningful growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org
• Translate the warm-yet-rigorous Angular outage into fixes that make the next Scottsdale launch dull
• Sketch Networking sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Trim StartupForge's cloud bill by right-sizing the Linux infrastructure in Scottsdale, AZ
• Lead technical design reviews for manager technology initiatives
• Bridge PHP and Terraform so the two halves of StartupForge's platform finally talk
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Git acceptance criteria

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on familiarity with Tailwind CSS, sharpened by Next.js side projects
• Familiarity with the rhythms of a deeply-bought-in part-time team
• Working knowledge of Tailwind CSS alongside transferable Relationship Building chops
• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• Solid Tailwind CSS grounding, plus Networking you can pick up on the fly
• Track record that proves you can self-directed ship under deadline pressure

StartupForge is a deeply technical, fiercely independent Scottsdale company that would rather earn trust slowly than buy attention quickly. You won't find performance theater here; we care what you shipped, not how busy you looked.

What we put on the table: $114,000 - $173,000, coaching for your Networking, benefits worth having, and freedom to grow at your own pace.

As of this visit, StartupForge is actively reviewing for the Engineering Manager role.